Year 1 News 12.7.24

Happy Friday Team!

In English we have been looking at the story 'The Last Wolf'. We looked at the front cover and made predictions of what was going to happen in the story. We then listened to some of the story, we met the character Red and we found out about how she went to hunt for a wolf. She stumbled upon a door in the forest where she found; The Last Wolf, The Last Lynx and The Last Bear. We all wrote sentences to describe what these characters looked like, what they are thinking and what they are feeling.

In Maths we have been recapping fractions. We have looked at halves of a shape. We spent a lot of time discussing how to half a shape; making sure that when we split there are equal parts. We really enjoyed finding half of a quantity. We had to figure out the number we were starting with and then we used the stem sentence 'half of .... Is ....'. We looked at quarters of a shape and a quantity. We made sure that when we split a shape into quarters, we had four equal parts. There was lots of discussion about quarters being half and half again.

In Phonics we have been recapping additional sounds, really making sure to embed them before we go into Year 2. We have been reading our stories in our partners, working hard on knowing our speedy green, story green and red words.

In computing we been creating our space race games. We have used the background we designed and made it on the SctrachJr. Once we had made our personalised backgrounds we found the rocket sprite, edited them to the colours we wanted. We then picked which rocket was going to win, using the speed block in our algorithms. We will finish our space games next week! Good job so far team!

This week was our final lesson in the unit in PE. We warmed up with a game of human skittles and then we played 'hole in one' where we had some different stations set up with lots of different targets for everyone. In pairs we went around the course and kept scores for our partners for every 'hole in one' we achieved. For a challenge at the end, some children made their own course and tested each other's target skills.

In Geography we recapped on what landmarks in London are called. We discussed London being the capital city of England. We know there is three more counties in the United Kingdom so we found out what their capital cities were. We then labelled our class map and individual map with the United Kingdom's capital cities; London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.

In heartsmart we talked about something that we missed. We talked about how it could be someone who has moved away, someone who has died, a pet we miss or a toy we have lost. We went round in a circle and talked about what we miss. We all listened really carefully. Then we drew pictures of what we miss in Borris' belly.

We finished our Design and Technology topic by evaluating our smoothies. We talked about what we really liked about our smoothies and then we discussed what we could do to improve them. Some of us found it really hard to think of improvements because we enjoyed them so much. Maybe next time we will have to make more!

It was the end of year music quiz in our music lesson this week. We chose our table names. We named ourselves after music related topics. We had Musical Tables and Chairs, Musical Flowers, Musical Statues, Too good for Music, Tom's Team (class cat) and Musical Books. We had 20 questions to answer as table groups. Some questions were quite tricky as we had to think really hard about learning from a few months ago. We gave it our all and had fun at the same time.

In RE we carried on comparing Jesus' world to our world. We recapped everything we have previously learnt. We all remembered what all the food on the seder plate represented. Then we spent some time thinking about what Jesus would most like to see or experience if he came to our world. We came up with some great ideas, including: how the houses had changed, technology and playing new games. We drew pictures of Jesus' life in the past.

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Miss Willis